Hello, and welcome to Pediatric House Calls. I am…
A Physician board certified in Pediatric medicine with Clinical experience including caring for infants, children and teens – well these days mostly children and teens up to twenty-one;
An Administrator experienced in top medical management for several national health insurance companies;
An Author of health care manuals, newspaper columns and even children's stories;
A Business Medical Consultant for drug companies, insurance companies and
physician practices;
A Veteran of the US Navy in the Vietnam era;
And…
I make House-Calls.
He calls himself unremarkable which is obviously not so. He says he’s been blind since nearly birth but navigates up steps and onto the TED stage on his own without a misstep. He knows that others see him as unusually capable for a blind person and call him “batman” but calls it only living without fear and activating your brain.
See the video…
The same holds true from my extensive series of articles about puberty—I didn’t mention how it is effected or even altered by hyperactivity. Read more →
Even though he found that his audience contained none of his favorite ages, three to 12, Jack gave his TED talk anyway and advised those present to: “don’t go extinct.”
His spellbinding talk tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs, the scientists who collect them and the curators who collect and display them.
See the video…
A New Year, Yippie!
[About this time every year things get a bit hectic around the homestead and we need to take a little hiatus. Hope you and everyone you care about have a perfect holiday season—wherever you may be! See you again in the new year.]
Santa knows where you are – even in hospice
[About this time every year things get a bit hectic around the homestead and we need to take a little hiatus. Hope you and everyone you care about have a perfect holiday season—wherever you may be! See you again in the new year.]
We’ve already talked about medical proverbs such as “cold hands, warm heart,” “feed a cold, starve a fever,” “drink eight glasses of water a day,” “cigarettes will stunt your growth” and that “apple a day”… thing.
But there are some we left out because the list was getting a bit long for one sitting. I’m going to take another shot at listing a few more, some from the “dawn” of medicine and others which are beginning to hit up against the way doctors are practicing medicine these days!
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